Online Learning

Aiken Technical College offers courses that use Internet-based (online) technologies to meet the needs of today's students. Through use of a wide variety of communication and collaboration tools, as well as multimedia instructional materials and web-based activities, students are guaranteed to be active and engaged.

Online Courses

Online students participate in courses through the Internet either with their home computers or with computers in labs on the ATC campus at times most convenient to their schedules. Courses usually begin during the first week of the term and end during the last week of the term and assignments are due periodically, just as they are in traditional courses. While online courses require no on-campus meetings, attendance policies are strictly followed and students are required to take proctored exams in the ATC Test Center.

Hybrid Courses

Hybrid courses combine classroom instruction with the features of online courses. Students usually complete 50% of their course work via face-to-face course meetings and 50% online using the Internet.

Web Enhanced Courses

Many instructors teaching traditional face-to-face courses supplement them by using the College Course Management System (Blackboard) or web pages to make additional materials available to students outside of class via the Internet. The course itself is delivered in a traditional face-to-face meeting time or number of meetings.